Issue/Question
- What does the Instructional Design Office do at BHSU?
- What can the Instructional Design Office help me with as a Faculty member?
Resolution
The BHSU Instructional Design Office supports, enables, and equips all new, adjunct, and experienced faculty to integrate educational technology and evidence-based pedagogy to design and develop quality-enhanced active learning user-friendly face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses. The office works with faculty to develop measurable learning objectives and align them directly with the course materials, activities, and assessments. It offers one-on-one guidance and feedback in the quality assurance process of online courses.
Desire2Learn (D2L) is the official Learning Management platform. Go to D2L resources for support. If you need assistance, email id@bhsu.edu.
- Teaching in-person course(s) - one of the best practices is to keep the students engaged throughout the week with the learning materials and their classmates
- Hence, it is encouraged that faculty flip the in-person course by using Desire2Learn
- for students to submit writing assignments, participate in online discussions, complete quizzes or exams, etc.
- for instructors to share course materials, grades, news items, etc.
- An additional benefit is that it will be easier to transition to online teaching – both for students and instructors, if there is a need to do so.
- Teaching online course(s) - a well-designed, quality online course helps increase student engagement and provides a better learning environment for students and a good teaching experience.
- The most important resource for the design and development of an online course is the BHSU Online Course Quality Standards, developed using the South Dakota Board of Regents (SDBOR) Online Course Quality Assurance Guidelines
- All new online courses, and any online course taught by a new Instructor for the first time, must be reviewed and approved.
- You will receive a detailed email about the Online Course Review.
Self-paced Training:
You should have received email invitations with more details for the following training courses at the same time as you received the welcome email.
- SDBOR Online Course Quality (Offered @ BHSU), which will provide an in-depth understanding of the SDBOR Online Course Review rubric.
- BHSU Sample D2L Course helps to incorporate a few course design ideas and D2L features into the courses.
- You can access these courses on D2L using BHSU credentials
If you have any questions or would like to schedule a time to meet (Zoom or in-person), email id@bhsu.edu